Notes on People

In addition to the memories of entrechats past that they left in Poland, the New York City Ballet, which carne home Sunday night, also left behind its favorite piece of gray linoleum. The linoleum had been used to cover the stage floor of the New York State Theater and almost every other stage the City Ballet danced on around the world. The gift was the largesse of George Balanchine, the company's director. Before he left Warsaw, Mr. Balanchine autographed the floor‐covering for the Polish Ballet. Polish dance officials quickly cut the autograph from the linoleum and framed it for hanging in the studio of the Polish Ballet School.

The trouble with developing international communications, said Robert W. Sarnoff, chairman of the RCA Corporation, is nationalism. Mr. Sarnoff, on a visit to 10 Downing Street, told Prime Minister Heath that what world communications needed was not nationalistic attempts to develop communications, but a kind of “common market of communications.” Mr. Heath, who recently achieved Great Britain's entry into the earthbound Common Market, was reportedly sympathetic.

The Right Rev. Peter Buthelezi was consecrated in South Africa as the first black Roman Catholic Bishop of Johannesburg. During the outdoor ceremony, black Catholic militant groups distributed copies of a letter calling for an end to alleged racism in the Church.

With all its art treasures, the Hermitage in ‘Leningrad had nary a brushstroke by Goya. Then the Soviet Union and the Occidental Petroleum Corporation worked out a multibillion — dollar trade agreement and Dr. Armand Hammer, Occidental's chairman, agreed to lend the Russians part of his personal art collection for display in the Soviet Union. And, after learning of the Hermitage's lack, Dr. Hammer, at a Ceremony in Moscow yesterday, was announced as the donor of “A Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate” 15y Goya, estimated value $1‐million.

Winthrop Rockefeller, the former Governor of Arkansas, left New York Hospital yesterday after undergoing a series of tests that followed the removal from his back last month of a cyst that indicated malignancy. The 60‐year‐old Mr. Rockefeller returned home to Winrock Farms, near Morrilton, Ark., and said he would receive “further treatment” there.

The subject of their discussion was not disclosed, but Pope Paul VI and John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia met privately at the Vatican. Cardinal Krol had just visited Poland.

One of the issues between Moshe Dayan, the Defense Minister of Israel, and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon in their rivalry to succeed Premier Golda Meir is General Dayan's collection of antiquities. Mr. Alton has asked the Israeli government to investigate charges that the general sold some of his collection to wealthy Americans. General Dayan, whose collection includes artifacts dating from Biblical times, has reportedly agreed to the investigation.

Preparing to celebrate her 90th birthday today in London, Dame Sybil Thorndike, the actress, said she didn't feel all that old. “I'm more like a girl of 64,” she said.

That jolly old bearded, redsuited symbol of Peruvian dependence, Papa Nal, has been invited to go home, wherever that might be, and take his Christmas trees with him. Samuel Perez Barreto, a government communications official in Lima, said, “the presence of Santa Claus in a Peruvian Christmas Is evident proof that we have been a dependent culture for many years.” So, said Mr. Perez, the government had won an agreement from advertisers not to use Santa on radio or television. Santa and his retinue of sleigh and reindeer are to be replaced, officially (there is only mountain‐top snow in Peru in December, anyway), by El Nifio Manuelito, a personification of the Christ child.

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